jtauber / labe-luxnos

exploring the use of text adventures / interactive fiction for learning Ancient Greek
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inventory #4

Open jtauber opened 6 years ago

jtauber commented 6 years ago

what should "inventory" be (and more specifically what should be command be to list your inventory)?

Some possibilities for a literal "inventory" are:

but I wonder one of:

would be better as they are much more common words. They refer to the items themselves rather than a list so they're not quite as literally "inventories" but not that sure matters.

seumasjeltzz commented 6 years ago

I think I'd avoid βρέβιoν as a straight loan-word and a late one at that. κατάλογος is what I'd use for a list. Though in some cases like this, I wonder if phrases aren't more (or at least as) useful. τὰ χρήματα ἃ ἔχω

jtauber commented 6 years ago

Phrases like τὰ χρήματα ἃ ἔχω would make sense when showing the list but we'd still need a command to show the list and perhaps κατάλογος is best for that (with the abbreviation κ supports)

jtauber commented 6 years ago

κατάλογος also has the nice advantage that it has a semantically transparent English cognate so it's good for beginners who will want to use it right from the start of the game.

fhardison commented 4 years ago

What abouta for of δεικνυμι for 'show'? Which would then be combined with κατάλογος or wherever is used for inventory or list.